Interesting things are happening in the center of the Milky Way, and scientists using radio telescopes on three continents have been making discoveries about a high energy wind that is blasting out of our galaxy.
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The Green Bank Elementary-Middle School Radioactive Robotics team created a handicap accessible door-opening mechanism to be used for opening long-handled doors like those at the Green Bank Observatory. Read the full story in the Pocahontas Times.
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Reanalysis of Breakthrough Listen Data to Include Other Stellar Objects in the Field Yields Most Comprehensive SETI Search to Date
Independent team combines existing radio telescope data with new catalogs to search over 200 times more stars than before
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Green Bank Observatory Science Center educator, Luci Finucan, is one of a few international ambassadors accepted into an elite STEM education program. The Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP) brings educators of all types, from formal and informal teachers to amateur astronomers together to learn more about US astronomy facilities in Chile, and share that knowledge with others. Normally a field experience in Chile, under COVID-19 safety precautions for 2020, most training will be virtual.
(more…)Starting a new job is hard – and starting a new job managing employee safety under the COVID-19 pandemic is even harder.
